Based on industry-standard MXM modules, the VPX6-490 is fitted with a pair of 240 core GPU devices each with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. The VPX6-490 leverages new OpenVPX profile standards to deploy the bandwidth of two 16-lane Gen2 PCI Express interfaces which is critical to maximizing the performance that can be extracted from the GPUs.

Integrated into a High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) subsystem, VPX6-490 functions as a co-processor attached to a host Intel-processor board and takes advantage of the new PCIe Expansion Plane definitions in the VITA 65 OpenVPX standard to provide off the shelf backplane support for high-speed interconnection between pairs of SBC/GPU.

The VPX6-490 is designed to work with Intel processor- based SBCs, such as the Curtiss-Wright VPX6-1956 2nd Generation Intel Core i7 and the CHAMP-AV8 dual 2nd Generation Intel Core i7 multiprocessor card.